Harper's Magazine: September 1987

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September 1987

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Cells PDF IMAGES
4-76	Letters/Department Letters On Campbell's primordial soup, from May 1987: Letter By Thomas H. Jukes On Perils of policy. The Marshall Plan only worked once, from May 1987: Letter By Walter E. Fauntroy On Notions of ideas. Intellectual histories, fine and rare, from June 1987: Letter By Janine C. Hartman On The last stop, from May 1987: Letter By Bruce Edward Brant Letter By Merlaine Anderson Lang Letter By W.P. de Mille Letter By W.T. Geiling Letter By Robert M. Harper PDF IMAGES
6-8	Notebook/Article Landscape with trolls By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; North, Oliver; Psychology; Public opinion PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-14	Readings/Article Art's grime and place By Arthur Coleman Danto SEE ALSO: Art appreciation; Conservation and restoration PDF IMAGES
14-16	Readings/Article The Democrats' script for 1988 By Robert Shrum SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1988-; Political oratory PDF IMAGES
16-18	Readings/Article Poison-pen mail SEE ALSO: Form letters; Homophobia; University of Chicago PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Keillor bids St. Paul adieu By Garrison Keillor SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Keillor, Garrison; Journalistic ethics; Minnesota; Privacy, Right of; St. Paul PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A “Playboy” advisory SEE ALSO: Racism; Sexual harassment PDF IMAGES Readings/Article In defense of West Bank settlement By Yoseph Ben-Shlomo SEE ALSO: Interviews; Israel; Israel-Arab War, 1967; Jewish-Arab relations; Jews; 1949-; Occupied territories; Ben-Shlomo, Yoseph; Zionism PDF IMAGES
19	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Artificial insemination, Human PDF IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Fiction Stories and histories By Jeanette Winterson PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration Revised edition By Tom Phillips SEE ALSO: A Humument (Book); Artists' books; Tom Phillips PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Against progress By E.M. (Emile M.) Cioran and Leonard Schwartz (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Human beings; Progress PDF IMAGES
24-27	Readings/Article Surrender to the landscape By Gretel Ehrlich SEE ALSO: Effect of environment on; Effect of human beings on; Ehrlich, Gretel; Homes and haunts; Human beings; Human ecology; Landscape; Nature; Wyoming PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Reading nature By Loren C. Eiseley SEE ALSO: Anthropomorphism; Effect of human beings on; Human-animal relationships; Human ecology; Eiseley, Loren C.; Nature; Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Tall in the saddle By Ian McMillan PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Utopia by computer SEE ALSO: Questionnaires; Social indicators PDF IMAGES
30	Illustration Sandía/Watermelon By Carmen Lomas Garza SEE ALSO: Porches; Watermelons PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Ode to corn By Paul West SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Corn; West, Paul PDF IMAGES
31-32	Readings/Article Boy talk SEE ALSO: Dating (Social customs) PDF IMAGES
32-36	Readings/Fiction Kafkas By Marianne Wiggins PDF IMAGES
37-47	Collection Ethics in embryo PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Biotechnology; Genetic engineering PDF IMAGES
38-40	Article Fetal brain implants By Lewis H. Lapham, Lee Salk, Nancy N. Dubler, Thomas H. Murray, and Jeremy Rifkin SEE ALSO: Alzheimer's disease; Biotechnology; Genetic engineering; Transplantation; Treatment PDF IMAGES
40-42	Article Sex determination before conception By Lewis H. Lapham, Lee Salk, Nancy N. Dubler, Thomas H. Murray, and Jeremy Rifkin SEE ALSO: Biotechnology; Genetic engineering; Sex of children, Parental preferences for; Sex preselection PDF IMAGES
41	Quotation Creating a prosthetic God By Sigmund Freud SEE ALSO: Gods; Human evolution; Omniscience; Progress; Technological innovations PDF IMAGES
42-47	Article Genetic profiles of test-tube babies By Lewis H. Lapham, Lee Salk, Nancy N. Dubler, Thomas H. Murray, and Jeremy Rifkin SEE ALSO: Biotechnology; Genetic engineering; Human genetics PDF IMAGES
43	Quotation The more evil monster By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley SEE ALSO: Monsters PDF IMAGES
45	Article Hyper evolution SEE ALSO: Animal genetic engineering; Breeding PDF IMAGES
46	Quotation The corpse of science By Jacob Bronowski SEE ALSO: Science and civilization PDF IMAGES
49-54	Article Hitler's shadow. On being a self-conscious German By Peter Schneider and Leigh Hafrey (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Anti-fascist movements; Atrocities; Germany (West); National socialism PDF IMAGES
57-60	Article To take paper, to draw. A world through lines By John Berger SEE ALSO: Art appreciation; Artists; Drawing; Technique; Themes, motives PDF IMAGES
62-63	Article A sophist's theory of free speech. Judge Robert Bork's First Amendment By Gerald Marzorati SEE ALSO: Constitutional law; Freedom of speech; Political and social views; Bork, Robert H.; Views on freedom of speech PDF IMAGES
65-68	Article The crime of the tooth. Dentistry in the chair By Peter Freundlich SEE ALSO: Dentist and patient; Dentistry; Dentists PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 57 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department See directions By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES